McDonalds secret racist website

well its not a secret anymore

What's racist about that?
Cheesy yes. Racist - hardly.

where are all the white folk

If it's made to help only one race, it's racist.

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Racism is the belief one race is superior to another.

kinda of harsh

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Like any of those people pictured work at McD's.

They are not?
I always thought blacks are better at basketball than whites.

Out of 480 player minutes in tonights NBA finals game I'll be surprised if white player minutes were more than 30.

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trying to figure out whether or not that site is real....it's a really shitty job if so

I'd hit it.

I actually feel its slightly racist. Condensing tone aside...

What if it has said 'White Employees' and that they specifically spend money with suppliers that are from the 'White Community'?

Likewise, they are happy to have and promote a 'Black McDonalds Franchise Owners' association. But if there was a specific 'White McDonalds Franchise Owners' association.... It would sound like some kinda KKK thing

I'm all for equality - Dont get me wrong. I dont care what your skin colour is when you make my burger. As long as its made correctly. If its not right, its going back, regardless of what race the employee is...

But, that said, I do feel that ad is a 'double standard'


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hahahahahahas.

this must be real, its on internet

Is there such thing as a racist, or is it simply a case that people are prejudice?

Today people are quickly labeled Racist without thought. Yet are they really racist or simply prejudice?

A definition from the net of a Racist is “a person who believes in racism, the doctrine that a certain human race is superior to any or all others”. My first thought is what is a race? From what I gather race was used to label people from certain places with certain characteristics as if people were say from Africa completely different to those in Europe. By this, I mean being as genetically different as a cat is do a ant. But today we know we are all the same species of animal (Homo Sapiens) so should we still be labeling different races as if we are different? Is this simply now out of date? After all what race are you? If your white and from England chances are you will have all sorts of connections with other countries in your family line. We know that when the Romans came to the UK that the Roman solders were not all white but made up of different people from around the world, and chances are they had rumpy pumpy with the local English.

In recent years we have developed what we refer to as ‘PC’ or political correction. With this we now list what we consider to be ‘good’ words and ‘bad words’. The list updates almost daily. I am not sure who has written the list of words, though one suspects its by well meaning white middle class ladies who have set themselves up to be the law on words.

I often think of the Columbo episode where the professor explains that we should not let the words control us, but we take control of the words. We sometimes now see this, such as the gay community who call themselves queer, thus taking control of a word that was used to insult them. We see this to in Black society were the word ‘hahahahahaha’ is used each other. Thus taking control over an word of insult. Thus should we ban words or take control over them.

But are people Racist or Prejudice?

You may be saying, does it matter, both is wrong.

This is important. I would argue it is far better not to just label someone as a Racist just because they say something that offends you. It simply becomes an insult in itself. In other words you offend me so I call you a Racist as a form of insult. It may make me feel better but in achieves nothing. At most it pushes peoples views underground were they fester and not challenged or discussed.

We also go back to the punt too of a race. For instant if I said something about Muslims is that Racist? But how can a religion be a race, it simply cannot. Thus my comment would be Prejudice.

From my observations Prejudice thoughts appear to come from those who have no contact with certain people or communities. The most extreme was years ago when the hung a monkey as they though it was a French spy. Today this would seem nuts but at one point people presumed that people from other countries could look like anything.

Where people mix with others (say work and home) then Prejudice does not seem to exist as much. For instance those who are non Muslim who work and have friends Muslim see Muslims as no different to anyone else (indeed replace the word Muslim with Jewish, Asian, polish and so on, its simply an example) and everyone gets on.

Where often we see Prejudice is where people are cut off from other communities. For instance there are parts of the UK were its mainly white and people do not work and education is low. These people only knowledge of other peoples is from stories then tell each other and things they may see on the media. For instance if these people read the Daily Mail then they are fed each day that Muslims are bad and polish are taking jobs and homes. Some of these people may never in there lives meet someone who is not white. In such circumstances Prejudice will fester. But labeling them Racist for there views does not help. Far better to try to get people to mix with others and also allow them to openly express there thoughts and views, and calmly discuss things with them. For instance a lot of people think Muslims is a completely different religion to Christens, yet both believe in Adam and eve and Jesus and so on. From what I gather its almost the same religion just a different take on it. And people forget that when they get upset that Muslim cover there hair that Nuns (traditional ones) too, and also Jewish ladies do (some were wigs over there real hair when married from what I gather).

But we now are seeing places mix. One part of Leeds was a white only place years ago and someone told me it was even the BNP base. Today its mixed. In fact its now common place to see mixed families. This is why we should not fear such as the BNP as what support can they get from such areas? How can they sell the idea that the UK should be white only when most families now have mixed families in them. I cannot see anyone voting for a party that is wanting to send members of there family or friends to another country. Its why the BNP did so badly in the elections and I suspect will never do well.

I watched recently a South Park episode were they had a flag of the town. It was an image of a black man being hung and it was then discussed if it was right or wrong. At the end the children ask what is wrong and chef says its showing a black man being hung. The children point out that they never noticed it was a black man and just have seen it as men hanging a man. In other words they had not seen it as a race hate flag. I say this as it reminds me of the ‘Golliwog’. I use this as an interesting example as all my life the Golliwog was simply a cute logo on jam. I had never seen it as a ‘race’ thing. It was only 2 years ago someone told me that people considered it an insult. Over time things change. I suspect no child today would ever see a Golliwog as anything as a harmless doll. And while it may have had alternative meanings does it mean it should be banned today if it no longer is seen as bad?

http://www.dvtimes.com/2012/05/18/racist-or-prejudice/

I agree, Sober, it's double standard.

Double standards are however generally considered fair when a weak(er) party is involved.


"National Association for the Advancement of Black People" = good cause.
"Association for the Advancement of White People" = white supremacist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...f_White_People)

"Women's League" = ok
"Men's League"= sports or porn or chauvinists

"Gay Power" good cause.
"Straight Power" nutcases in the Christian Belt.

"Empowering Fat People", I'm with it.
"Empowering Athletic People" sounds Nazi.

Make the Call

Phone number is for KFC

Looks more like good intentions to me.

DVTimes, you are truly one of the worst writers I have ever read. You should stop blogging. You're just embarrassing yourself.

Modern day version of...

what's the point you are trying to make here? that teenagers should start off with ceo jobs?

or do you ever have a point? or is it just everyone who's successful is bad and evil?

racism is preoccupation with race

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery

"Wage slavery refers to a situation of quasi-voluntary slavery where a person's livelihood depends on wages, especially when the dependence is total and immediate. It is a negatively connoted term used to draw an analogy between slavery and wage labor, and to highlight similarities between owning and employing a person. The term wage slavery has been used to criticize economic exploitation and social stratification, with the former seen primarily as unequal bargaining power between labor and capital (particularly when workers are paid comparatively low wages, e.g. in sweatshops), and the latter as a lack of workers' self-management, fulfilling job choices and leisure in an economy.The criticism of social stratification covers a wider range of employment choices bound by the pressures of a hierarchical society to perform otherwise unfulfilling work that deprives humans of their "species character" not only under threat of starvation or poverty, but also of social stigma and status diminution.

The exchange of money and debt for prolonged and unfulfilling work choices traces back to the disintegration of hunter-gatherer gift economies and the origin of prostitution as a "fundamental feature of human civilization". Similarities between wage labor and slavery were noted in ancient Rome by Cicero, while the pervasive practice of voluntary slavery in medieval Russia indicates the previous historical coexistence of slavery and voluntary choice. Before the American Civil War, Southern defenders of African American slavery invoked the concept of wage slavery to favorably compare the condition of their slaves to workers in the North. With the advent of the industrial revolution, thinkers such as Proudhon and Marx elaborated the comparison between wage labor and slavery in the context of a critique of societal property not intended for active personal use, while Luddites emphasized the dehumanization brought about by machines."

True, but I get what he's saying. It kind of annoys me too that every liberal white person is crying racism constantly. Like black people need white people to stick up for them....

OK before we start the witch hunt here - HAS anyone found out IF the site is real or made up?

"The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil."
H. L. Mencken




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Because they sell to the government McDonald's is required by affirmative action laws to have these kinds of outreach programs and targeted recruitment. Is is racism? Sure, legally required racism. See http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/

A few of the things the Department of Labor says companies have to do if the eant to sell burgers in a goverment building or otherwise contract with the government:
5. Using techniques to improve recruitment and increase the flow of minority and female applicants.
a. Include the phrase "Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer" in all printed employment advertisements;
b. Place help wanted advertisement, when appropriate, in local minority news media and women's interest media;
c. Disseminate information on job opportunities to organizations representing minorities, women and employment develop occur;
d. Encourage all employees to refer qualified applicants;
e. Actively recruit at secondary schools, junior colleges, colleges and universities with predominantly minority or female en
f. Request employment agencies to refer qualified minorities and women;

6. Hiring a statistical consultant to help the company perform a self-audit of its compensation practices;


Don't like it? Don't vote for politicians who make everything about race.


When we looked into government contracts half of the paperwork was about race, gender etc. I'm white and male; we didn't get the contracts. It was tempting to submit them in my wife's name since she's black and female.

it appears legit http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/websites.html something about inspir-asian as well so Rotten Ronnies is covering all the bases

Damn that sometimes I hate being white, straight, chauvinist and athletic! I can't argue with anybody

You have to stop over-simplifying the world PR_Glen, the world is complex; everyone who has achieved financial success is individual and unique, one cannot paint them all with the same brush

man, white people sure love to be pissed off about black people...it's like a hobby or something...

i knew they where racist :D

Tempting? You were a fool not to.

There is a lot of different ways to look at it.

Good:
Hiring people who need work.

Targeting a demographic or demographics that need help.

Promoting a good cause overall

Bad:
Perhaps it is being over PC. Bit like a lot of ads these days seem to have to have as many different people in them as possible (so nobody feels left out) This is perhaps the opposite but whatever.

Using a cause seen as perhaps good to get cheap legal labour.

Being similar to pink washing or green washing, where companies make thing pink to profit off the breast cancer campaign, or green washing like Coca-cola giving money to fund WWF polarbear projects, which is a good cause obviously but is probably trying to distract from the fact they will never give any money to a charity that promotes cutting soda out of your diet.

Being racist, what about the poor Latin, White, and Asian people?

I see it as a good cause, don't think McDonald's is fronting some kind of Black Power movement through the power of shit cheap food they are doing some good but probably getting rewarded themselves at the same time.

Anyone that eats that shit is going to die anyway, so who cares

This is old. Like 5 years old.